"I am a complete man. Nothing has gone from my body. From here on I want to live at peace. Don't believe any bad talk you hear about me."

"My heart is good. I have never lied to my people. I have never betrayed them."

"I don't want any man who will talk bad about me, and tell lies, to be there, because I am going to try and live well and peaceably. I want to have a good man put over me."

"General Crook said to me, 'Why did you leave the reservation?' I said: 'You told me that I might live in the reservation the same as white people lived. One year I raised a crop of corn, and gathered …"

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us."